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fluidity

fluidity

8 5.0
How easily someone or something changes to fit new situations
  • noun
  • /fluːˈɪdəti/
translation icon : adaptabilidad
  • His ability to adapt to new situations with great fluidity impressed his colleagues during the project.
  • fluidity of identity
  • fluidity and instability
  • fluidity of life

So there's a certain kind of fluidity to that technology.

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Examples

  • Her quest as an artist was to make sense of and mirror the fluidity of life.

    Academic text (1995)
  • One of the most obvious illustrators of the fluidity of Cogewea's identity is her language.

    Academic text (1997)
  • But I will say you have to understand your own fluidity in order to find your own community.

  • So I think right now probably it's safe to say that there is that capacity for fluidity in both men and women.

  • Perhaps they are aware that their writing lacks the fluidity of their conversation.

    Academic text (2000)
  • So there's a certain kind of fluidity to that technology.

  • The most critical feature of social boundary-making in Bay Village is the fluidity of the categories.

    Academic text (1991)
  • The challenge for the Haitian visual artist is to capture this fluidity and make it concrete.

    Academic text (1996)
  • Where my father found strength in fluidity and change, his brother found strength in constancy and immutability.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • Relations between Africans and Europeans, and between the imperial powers, were shaped by the fluidity of colonial borders.

    Academic text (2006)

Synonyms

flexibility
vsfluidity
153 3.6

Ability to change plans or actions easily to fit new situations

stresses the general capacity to change rather than personal willingness
variability
vsfluidity
29 5.7

The amount that something changes over time or between things

focuses on smooth adaptation rather than mere inconsistency
adaptability
vsfluidity
11 3.9

Being able to change and work well in new situations

is more general about easy change rather than practical adjustment
plasticity
vsfluidity
  • Specialized
4 6.3

The ability to change or adapt easily in new situations

is more general about easy change, not necessarily biological or material
mutability
vsfluidity
1 8.4

Being able to change often or easily

is more active, emphasizing easy adaptation rather than mere changeability
adjustability
vsfluidity
1 3.8

How easy it is to change something to fit different needs

is about the quality of changing in general, not making exact changes
adaptiveness
vsfluidity
1 4.6

Ability to change easily to new situations

is broader, covering changeability beyond quick situational response
suppleness
vsfluidity
1 4.7

Being able to change ideas or plans easily

is wider, covering both mental and nonmental ease of change
pliancy
vsfluidity
1 6.7

A quality of changing easily in mind or body

is broader, meaning easy change without implying physical bending
changeability
vsfluidity
1 4.6

How often or easily something becomes different, for example the weather

emphasizes smooth adaptability rather than frequency of change
fluidness
vsfluidity
6.2

The ability to change or adapt easily in appearance and movement

is identical in meaning but differs only as another word form
adaptivity
vsfluidity
6.5

The ability to change to fit new situations

is a general trait of easy change, not a system property only
pliantness
vsfluidity
7.7

Ability to bend or change easily

covers general easy change rather than specifically bending or yielding
flexibleness
vsfluidity
3.9

The ability to change to fit new situations

is broader, also applying to abstract change not only bending
mutableness
vsfluidity
9.9

A quality of being able to change

focuses on flexible adaptation rather than just being changeable
alterability
vsfluidity
7.2

The ability to change

is about being able to change easily, not just being modifiable
changeableness
vsfluidity
7.6

A quality of becoming different often and without warning

is more neutral about changeability, not about unpredictability or speed
transformability
vsfluidity
6.5

Ability of a thing to be changed in shape, look, or use

is broader, applying to easy adjustment across contexts not just conversion
variableness
vsfluidity
7.2

A quality of changing often, like rain or mood

is about easy, controlled adaptation rather than simple variation
dynamicity
vsfluidity
8.1

Ability to change or adapt quickly

is specifically about ease of change, not ongoing activity or motion
tunability
vsfluidity
6.7

How easy it is to adjust a device to different settings so it works how you want

is more general, covering effortless change rather than fine tuning

Antonyms

363 3.1

Being steady and not likely to change

Refusing to change ideas or plans

How Flexible

versatility
22 5.8
fluidity
8 5.0
flexibility
37 3.0
adaptability
11 3.9

Surface Forms

fluidity singular
fluidities plural

Morphology

fluidity = fluid (semi-transparent) = fluid + ity

The noun is formed from 'fluid' but used metaphorically to mean adaptability or changeability, which requires a figurative inference.

Etymology

Fluidity comes from the same root fluere, 'to flow', and is related to words like flow and fluent, so thinking of things that 'flow' helps you remember that fluidity means the ability to change or adapt smoothly and easily.